Audition (2000) [Movie]

オーディション

director: Takashi Miike actor: Ryo Ishibashi / Eihi Shiina …

other title: Anjo ou Demónio / 切肤之爱 …

Seven years after the death of his wife, widower Shigeharu seeks advice on how to find a new wife from a colleague. Taking advantage of their position as a film company, they stage an audition. Interviewing a series of women, Shigeharu is enchanted by the quiet Asami. But soon things take a twisted turn as Asami isn’t what she seems to be.

Abnormal Family (1984) [Movie] TMDB IMDb Douban

変態家族 兄貴の嫁さん

director: Masayuki Suō actor: Ren Osugi / Miki Yamaji …

other title: 変態家族 兄貴の嫁さん / Família Anormal …

The film tells a story about a woman and her relationship with the family of her husband's, in particular her husband's younger brother and father-in-law. Her husband, on the other hand, has an affair with a dominatrix and is obsessed in S&M games.

Shinjuku Triad Society (1995) [Movie] TMDB

新宿黒社会 チャイナマフィア戦争

director: Takashi Miike actor: Kippei Shiina / Takeshi Caesar …

other title: 新宿黒社会 チャイナマフィア戦争 / Shinjuku Killers

Tatsuhito, a cop, pursues Chinese warlord Wang through the underworld of Shinjuku and over to Taiwan.

Dead or Alive 2: Birds (2000) [Movie] TMDB Douban

DEAD OR ALIVE 2 逃亡者

director: Takashi Miike actor: Show Aikawa / Riki Takeuchi …

other title: Dead or Alive 2 / DEAD OR ALIVE 2 逃亡者 …

Two contract killers cross paths in the middle of the same job and realize they are childhood friends. Together they take a break from killing and visit the small island they once called home. After reflecting on their past lives they decided to team up and use their talents in killing for good... much to the upset of the crime syndicates.

Dead or Alive (1999) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb

DEAD OR ALIVE 犯罪者

director: Takashi Miike actor: Riki Takeuchi / Show Aikawa …

other title: DEAD OR ALIVE 犯罪者 / Dead or alive I …

Ryūichi and his small gang of Triad vie for control of the Japanese underworld in a crime-ridden Shinjuku quarter while Detective Jojima tries to bring it down.

Ley Lines (1999) [Movie] TMDB

日本黒社会 LEY LINES

director: Takashi Miike actor: Kazuki Kitamura / Dan Li …

other title: 日本黒社会 LEY LINES

The story follows a trio of Japanese youths of Chinese descent who escape their semi-rural upbringing and relocate to Shinjuku, Tokyo, where they befriend a troubled Shanghai prostitute and fall foul of a local crime syndicate. Like many of Miike's works, the film examines the underbelly of respectable Japanese society and the problems of assimilation faced by non-ethnically Japanese people in Japan.

Blessing Bell (2002) [Movie] TMDB

幸福の鐘

director: SABU actor: Susumu Terajima / Naomi Nishida …

other title: 幸福の鐘

Existential study on a misplaced workers and ex-prisoner who moves through the city and his influence on other characters' lives.

Drive (2002) [Movie] TMDB Douban IMDb

ドライブ

director: SABU actor: Shinichi Tsutsumi / Ren Osugi …

other title: ドライブ / 驾驶

Kenichi Asakura is an uptight, hyper-square salesman. One day, three bank robbers commandeer his van. They are in hot pursuit of their fellow robber who has snatched the money. Unfortunately for the bank robbers, Asakura never drives over 40 km/h speed limit even under the extreme situation.

Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Gamble (1996) [Movie] TMDB

勝手にしやがれ！！　逆転計画

director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa actor: Show Aikawa / Koyo Maeda …

other title: 勝手にしやがれ！！　逆転計画

Having lost everything to horse racing, Yûji accidentally gets 10 million yen. But this sum belongs to a Yakuza.

Black Angel (1998) [Movie] TMDB IMDb

黒の天使 Vol.1

director: Takashi Ishii actor: Riona Hazuki / Reiko Takashima …

other title: 黒の天使 Vol.1 / Black Angels

Tokyo is a dark technopolis, a city of faceless chrome and cold marble. It is ruled by Nogi, a yakuza boss specializing in drugs and murder. He gained absolute power by executing the former boss and marrying his daughter, Chiaki. Only the mysterious Ikko, Chiaki's half-sister threatens him. Inspired by a legendary hit-woman, Ikko calls herself the Black Angel and plans to wash away her father's murderer with a deluge of blood.

License to Live (1999) [Movie] TMDB

ニンゲン合格

director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa actor: Hidetoshi Nishijima / Koji Yakusho …

Yutaka was fourteen years old when he was run over by a car and fell into a coma. Now, ten years later, he wakes up and realizes that his family is not intact anymore: father, mother and sister live at different places. Yutaka decides to re-open the pony farm that his family once ran.

Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Heist (1995) [Movie] TMDB

勝手にしやがれ!!　強奪計画

director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa actor: Show Aikawa / Yoriko Doguchi …

other title: 勝手にしやがれ!!　強奪計画

Two petty gangsters get ransomed by a group of Yakuza members, fortunately they are rescued by a kindly Kindergarten teacher.

Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Escape (1995) [Movie] TMDB

勝手にしやがれ!!　脱出計画

director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa actor: Show Aikawa / Koyo Maeda …

other title: 勝手にしやがれ!!　脱出計画

Hapless gangsters are hired by the yakuza to tail his daughter. Once the identity of the boy she's dating has been unveiled, the boss offers a reward for his capture.

Zebraman (2004) [Movie] TMDB

ゼブラーマン

director: Takashi Miike actor: Show Aikawa / Kyoka Suzuki …

A failure as a teacher and a familyman, Shinichi tries to escape everyday live by dressing up as the superhero "Zebraman". Although the TV series was canceled after only 6 episodes, this cannot stop him from acting out his escapist fantasy in a self made zebra-suit. He gets more then he could ever wish for when his black-and-white dressed alter-ego seems to be the only thing to stand between absolute (green) evil and a happy ending.

Tokyo Eyes (1998) [Movie] TMDB

Tokyo Eyes

director: Jean-Pierre Limosin actor: Shinji Takeda / Hinano Yoshikawa …

The police are tracking a man who shoots at people. But the young sister of a detective finds that he's not the mad vigilante portrayed in newspapers.

Dead Run (2005) [Movie] TMDB

疾走

director: SABU actor: Yuya Tegoshi / Hanae Kan …

other title: 疾走 / Dead run

Classmates Shuji and Eri becomes friends, both young people have family problems. When Eri is taken away to Tokyo by her relatives, Shuji becomes increasingly isolated at school and drifts into criminal activity.

Charisma (1999) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB WikiData IMDb Douban

カリスマ

director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa actor: Koji Yakusho / Hiroyuki Ikeuchi …

other title: Charisma - Das Ende beginnt / Séance …

A seasoned detective is called in to rescue a politician held hostage by a lunatic. In a brief moment of uncertainty, he misses the chance for action. Leaving his job and family without explanation, he makes his way to a mountain forest, encountering a peculiar tree called Charisma.

Doing Time (2002) [Movie] TMDB

刑務所の中

director: Yoichi Sai actor: Tsutomu Yamazaki / Teruyuki Kagawa …

other title: 刑務所の中

A man serving a sentence in a minimum-security prison. Life in the jail is rigid and organized, eventually leading all of the cell-mates to abandon their individuality.

Vacation (2008) [Movie] TMDB

休暇

director: Hajime Kadoi actor: Kaoru Kobayashi / Nene Otsuka …

other title: 休暇

The prison guards working in penitentiaries where death row inmates are locked up are forced to spend their daily lives constantly facing death.

Train Man (2005) [Movie] TMDB

電車男

director: Shosuke Murakami actor: Takayuki Yamada / Miki Nakatani …

other title: 電車男 / Densha Otoko

The purportedly true story of a 23-year-old otaku (Japanese geek) who intervened when a drunk man was harassing a woman on a train. The otaku ultimately started dating with her and chronicled his event and his dates with the woman (who became known as "Hermès") on the Japanese mega-BBS 2channel.